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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder is the fifth nonfiction book by American journalist David Grann. [1] The book focuses on the Wager Mutiny. It was published on April 18, 2023 by Doubleday. [2] [3] [4] The book became a bestseller, topping The New York Times best-seller list in the nonfiction category for its first week of ...
David Elliot Grann (born March 10, 1967) is an American journalist, a staff writer for The New Yorker, and author. His first book, The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon , was published by Doubleday in February 2009.
David Grann: The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder. Doubleday, New York, NY 2023. ISBN 978-0385534260; John Bulkeley & John Cummins: A Voyage to the South-Seas, in the Years 1740-1: Containing a Faithful Narrative of the Loss of His Majesty's Ship the Wager on a Desolate Island. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2015.
David Grann, author of "Killers of the Flower Moon," arrives in Savannah with his latest page-turner, "The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder."
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There is a 28 page summary of the SES 2006 expedition by the leader Major Chris Holt in C H Layman's 2015 book. [8] This includes extensive maps and colour photographs of the locations and objects. It explains and illustrates that Wager Island has been pushed upwards out of the sea by about 7 m due to a total of 94 earthquakes since 1741.
Bulkeley, with John Cummins, wrote an account of this experiences A voyage to the South-Seas, in the years 1740-1 (1743), which was published with the long subtitle, "A faithful Narrative of the Loss of his Majesty's Ship the WAGER on a desolate Island in the Latitude 47 South, Longitude 81:40 West: With the Proceedings and Conduct of the Officers and Crew, and the Hardships they endured in ...
In The New York Times, Sam Roberts called the book "riveting." [4] Writing in Entertainment Weekly, critic Keith Staskiewicz gave the collection a grade of A: "This collection of David Grann's nonfiction, much of it from The New Yorker, is by turns horrifying, hilarious, and outlandish...